What sort of hp are each of the open wheel SCCA classes developing? Anyone know?
What sort of hp are each of the open wheel SCCA classes developing? Anyone know?
There are so many different open wheel classes in SCCA that there's a lot of different kinds of chassis. Are you just looking for horsepower figures, or are you thinking about what kind of lap times they turn?
HP. I want some sort of comparison between the hp of F1000 compared to FV and FF, for example. Then I need to find some lap times from a "spectrum" of tracks from fast (Road America?) to slow (Blackhawk?) with something in the middle. For the sake of getting things rolling, let's focus on F1000/FF/FV.
FV motors are pushing about 53hp, I know that much. I seem to remember something about FF being in the 130hp range, but I don't know the who, what, where, when, or why I got that number.
FF is about 115 (for the Ford motor) and that is for a $15K motor built by a pro.
F1000 (FB) is a stock GSXR1000 - the only allowed mod is a manual cam chain tensioner and presumably some sort of flat bottom wet oil pan. Those make like 145 hp.
But I think and FB is a formula continental, so maybe a kick ass FC motor makes 150. I've been around some FCs at summit in my Radical w/ a tired '02 GSXR 1000 motor and they seemed to pull me a bit on the straight. I was doing better times but these weren't fast cars or drivers.
F1000: Yep, 145-150ish at the wheels without a whole lot of torque.
So would I be wildly inaccurate to round off those numbers as 50/100/150 for FV/FF/F1000 respectively?
A typical F500 2-stroke snowmobile motor makes around 100hp.
stroker wrote: So would I be wildly inaccurate to round off those numbers as 50/100/150 for FV/FF/F1000 respectively?
Nope. Most CF/FF motors make about 90-100hp.
All right, then, let's talk about tracks rather than starting a new thread. I'm looking for "representative" tracks you could characterize as "Fast" (again, I'm thinking Road America) "Medium or Mixed" (Mid-Ohio, perhaps?) and "Slow" (very tight and twisty, maybe Sears Point?) that would have extensive lap times/records for the last 30 years or so. Any nominations?
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